Paul Murray Kendall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
-- Paul Murray Kendall

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[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.
-- Paul Murray Kendall

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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
A photograph is a biography of a moment.
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Paul Murray Kendall famous quotes

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